Listed Building record MDO14082 - Rodden House, Rodden, Abbotsbury

Large detached House. Early eighteenth century. Grey ashlar stone walls, with rusticated quoins. Central pediment with a wooden modillion cornice. Side walls, at left rubble-stone, at right ashlar. Hipped slate roofs. Stone sleeper wall to front garden, with a pair of low rusticated gate-piers with imposts and pyramidal caps. Iron railings on sleeper wall, with an iron gate at centre.

Rodden House is a two-storeyed stone ruibble and ashlar-fronted building dated to the 18th century although the core may be earlier. <1>

Rodden House (name confirmed) is as described by DOE. <3>

<1> DOE (HRR), 1951, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Dorchester Rural District 1951, 7 (Scheduling record). SWX2329.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 61118421) Rodden House (NAT)

<3> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 24-APR-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452811 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 6 2023 1:58PM